Gold and silver in bars, dust, or coin

46. Samples of merchandise the duties on which do not exceed Sh. 1. lt is understood that te packages or coverings in which the articles

named in the foregoing schedule are imported shall be free of duty if they are usual and proper for the purpose.

Manuel L. Morales.

Washington, December 28, 1891.

Mr. Blaine to Senor Morales.

Department of State,

Washington, December 30, 1891.

Sir : It is very pleasant for me to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 28th instant , in which you inform me that the Government of Salvador , in view of the invitation given in my note to your légation of January 3 last, and in considération of the admission into the United States of the products of Salvador , free of ail duty , whether national, municipal, or of any other kind, named in section 3 of the tariff law of the Congress of the United States approved October 1, 1890, proposes as a provisional commercial arrangement, to admit into the Republic of Salvador, from the lst day of February, 1892, free of ail customs , municipal, or any other kind of duty, the articles, the product or manufacture of the United States , enumerated in the schedule attached to your said note ; that , reserving the right to adopt the laws and régulations necessary to prevent fraud, it agrées that they shall not impose any additional charges or fees therefor on the articles imported from the United States ; that, in case the provisional arrangement proposed by you is accepted by the Government of the United States, the Président of Salvador will apply to the Congress of the Republic, at its session in February next, for the autority necessary to celebrate with the United States and put in force a more complète reciprocity arrangement; that, if such authority should be conferred by the Congress, negotiations shall be opened at Washington within sixty days after the authority is obtained; and that, should a definite arrangement be agreed upon, it shall be put in opération within

Etats-Unis d'Amérique, Salvador.

sixty days from the date of agreement and supersede the provision al arrangement now proposed.

I am directed by the Président to state to you that he accepts this action of the Government of Salvador, in stipulating, as a provisional measure , to grant exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States and to negotiate a more complète reciprocity arrangement on the terms stated , as a due reciprocity for the action of the Congress of the United States, as contained in section 3 of the tariff law above cited.

I am also pleased to reciprocate the assurance contained in your note, and to state that the laws and régulations adopted by the Government of the United States to prevent fraud shall not impose any additional charges or fees therefor on the products imported from Salvador.

It shall be further understood that, should the Congress of Salvador take no action on the application of the Executive for authority to celebrate a more complète reciprocity arrangement, the Government of the United States may terminate the provisional arrangement proposed by you upon thirty days' notice to the Government of Salvador ; and , further, that if before January 1, 1893 , no definite arrangement is agreed upon, the Government of the United States may likewise terminate the provisional arrangement.

I am, etc.,

Dr. Manuel L. Morales^

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Salvador.